Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-05-06
GONE WITH HER OLD LOVE.
A WIFE DESERTS HER SEC.
OND HUSBAND.

THE DOWNFALL or A SOUTHERN
PREACHER-HIs WIFE OBTAINS
A DIVORCE-AFTER YEARS HE
MEETS HER AS ANOTHER MANS
WIFE AND ELOPEs WITH HER.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, May l.
About the LIST Of March there ap.
peared here a middle-aged man of
prepossessing appearance and ele-
giant manners, who gave his name
as Davis, and his occupation as that
of a music teacher. lie allied him.
self with the Watkins Park MethO-
dist church, and everything flour
Ished with him. However, the new
conner showed himself not averse TO
borrowing, and, in fact, as proof
now goes to show, hardly ever let
pass by an opportunity to secure a
loan. From several prominent gen
tlemen he received large amounts.
Thursday night Mr.. Davis disap-
peared, which occasioned consider
able remark, and on the same day
on which Davis departed the wife
of Mr.. W. VI. Petty, a gentleman
living in South Nashville, also dis
appeared. II is now revealed that
the two went together. The music
teachers real name was not Davis,
but A. b. BOhanan. Years ago he
was a Cumberland Presbyterian
preacher. He married, while wear
ing the clerical robes, Miss Ella
Rose. daughter Of E. T. Rose, of
this city. For years they lived to-
gether in Wilson county, but the
charge of obtaining money under
false pretences arising against him,
he took his wife and one child, a
boy named Charley, up 70 LOgans.
port, Ind. There she obtained
divorce from him, and subsequent
Is came back TO Nashville. That
was eight years since. Three years
ago Mr.. w. ". Petty, who is in
business on Broadway, met the
lady, still young and attractive,
and married her, and mp until the
unexpected turn of affairs, have
lived in harmony and happiness,
never hearing of Bohanan. and rare
ly abiding to him.
"AbOut six weeks ago. said the
deserted husband, in relating the
story, 81 came home one evening
and my wife told me that BOhanan
had been az the house. 1 told her
! didn't want him 20 be making
visits 20 her, but she SAID he came
to see Charley, his and my wife's
ten-year-Old boy. | told Ella that
the man came with no good inten.
ton, and asked her not to see him
any more, but in spite ofmy wishes
he went 10 see her three times after
that. Thursday morning left her,
as usual, with kiss and vent 10
my work. On returning that night
! found the house locked, and after
getting in found note which said
she had become convinced that, ac-
cording to Scripture, she was COM
hitting adultery in living with me,
having another husband living, and
she didn't want to 90 70 torment
and drag me with her. She also
said that she didn't think We had .
ever loved each other as man and .
wife should, and wound up by say
ing that she was going to take
Charley and 90 oil. can't believe
she has gone OIL with BOhanan,
though know, OF course, he is at .
the bottom OF the whole thing
When he came here aud saw us /
happy and prosperous, feeling Of |
revenge for her leaving him took /
possession Of him, think, and he .
determined to blight her life. Ny /
wife's father says he thinks she has .
gone TO Kentucky \ letter re.
ceived to-day By Mrs. Robert VI.
Petty from the missing woman
states that she was led 20 slight by /
the advice of three preachers, who 7
had advised her that she was doing
wrong. The facts al, point, how
ever, to her having gone with her f
former husband.